Isidro Blasco

Page 1 | Biography

Born: Madrid, Spain 1962
Lives: & works in New York

Education
Bachelor Degree in Fine Arts
Candidate for a Ph.D. at the Architectural School of Madrid


Solo Exhibitions
2007 The Middles of the End, DCKT Contemporary, New York, NY
2006 The Middle of the End, ACA Gallery, Savannah College of Art and Design, Atlanta, GA
F�cares Gallery, Madrid, Spain
2005 Beginning�s End, DCKT Contemporary, New York, NY
Left Behind, Centro de Arte Caja de Burgos, Spain.
F�cares Gallery, Madrid, Spain
2004 Thinking About That Place, Espacio Uno, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia,
Madrid, Spain
Thinking About That Place, DCKT Contemporary, New York, NY
2003 Museo Patio Herreriano, Valladolid, Spain
2002 F�cares Gallery, Madrid, Spain
2001 Roger Smith Gallery, New York, NY
2000 Museo de Arte y Dise�o Contempor�neo, San Jos�, Costa Rica
1999 �Special Project� P.S. 1, Sept-Nov. 99, Long Island City, NY
Stefan Stux Gallery, Project Room, New York, NY
Queens Museum of Art, Bulova Center, Queens, NY
1994 Diario Levante, Valencia, Spain
1990 M�cula Gallery, Alicante, Spain


Group Exhibitions
2006 Substance and Light: Ten Sculptors Use Cameras, Museum of Art, Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts
Institute, Utica, NY
Installed!, The Shore Institute of the Contemporary Arts, Long Branch, NJ
3rd Ward, Brooklyn, NY
gimme shelter, 10a Serpentine Drive, Shelter Island, NY
2005 Odd Lots: Revisiting Gordon Matta-Clark�s �Fake Estates�, organized by Cabinet Magazine,
White Columns, New York, NY
The Gift: Building a Collection for the Queens Museum, Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY
Off the Wall, Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery, Hunter College, New York, NY
Welcome 2 the Jungle, DCKT Contemporary, New York, NY
That Which is Built, Patricia Sweetow Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Collapsing Matter, Morsel Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2004 Queens International 2004, Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY
Architecture Untethered, Numark Gallery, Washington, D.C.
EAF04, Socrates Sculpture Park, New York, NY
Domicile: A Sense of Place, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA
In Practice, Sculpture Center, Long Island City, NY
Synapses, Florence Lynch Gallery, New York, NY
2003 Temporary Spaces, Charlottenborg Exhibition Hall, Denmark
Not To Scale, Dorsky Gallery, curated by E. Arratia, Long Island City, NY
Parklife, Public Art Fund, MetroTech Center, Brooklyn, NY
Slingshot Project Gallery, New York, NY
2002 S-Files, El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY
Magische Expeditionen, Folkwang Museum, Essen, Germany
2001 Eccentric Photography, Islip Art Museum, Islip, NY
2000 Insights: Interior Spaces in Contemporary Art, Whitney Museum at Champion, Stamford, CT
1999 Amerika in Immigrant Hands, Jamaica Center for the Arts and Learning, Jamaica, NY
1991 Roma '91, Spanish Academy in Rome, Italy.


Bibliography
2006 Gordon, Margery, �Art Basel Miami: Pulse Beats Sophomore Slump�, artinfo.com,
December 9.
Kuhn, Thomas W., �-scope / PULSE New York 2006�, Kunstforum International,
issue 180, May-June, pp.410-412.
2005 Ewing, John, �Off the Wall� (review), Modern Painters, Dec/January, pp. 121
Cotter, Holland, �Art in Review: Off the Wall�, New York Times, September 30
Carel, Sari, �New York: Critics� Picks � Off the Wall�, Artforum.com, October
Baker, Kenneth, �Blasco at Sweetow�, San Francisco Chronicle, July 16
2004 Cotter, Holland, �For New Art, Just Take the 7 Train�, New York Times, Nov. 12
Laster, Paul, �Sculpture Center, Long Island City/ DCKT Contemporary, New York�, Tema Celeste, May/June
Cassidy, Victor M., �Art Chicago 2004�, Artnet.com, May 7
Green, Tyler, �Isidro Blasco @ DCKT Contemporary�, Modern Art Notes, February
Dollar, Steve, �Putting Innovation into �Practice��, Newsday, January 4
2003 Macadam, Barbar, �Reading Rooms�, ARTnews, September, page 108
Demby, Eric, �Art Without a Canvas�, Polo.com Magazine, January
Cotter, Holland, �Art in Review: The S Files�, New York Times, January 17


Grants/Awards
2004 �Socrates Sculpture Park�s 2004 Emerging Artist Fellowship�; New York, NY
2002 �In The Public Realm, Public Art Fund�; New York, NY
2002 �Rockefeller Foundation, Bellagio�, Studio Residency, Italy
2001 �New York Foundation for the Arts�; New York, NY
2000 �Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in Visual Arts�; New York, NY
1998 �The Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation Studio Grant�; New York, NY
1997 �Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant, New York�, 97/ 98.